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Sunday’s Breakfast Menu, Nov. 18

This Sunday’s breakfast menu focuses on quality over quantity, with shows devoting their programs to a small number of big-name guests.

ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” has an interview with Fred D. Thompson. John Edwards is on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” (which also features Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister—recently freed from house arrest—and Yasuo Fukuda, the Japanese prime minister).

I look forward to seeing Huck on FNS. I’m a Democrat but he would be my #2 behind Obama.

He’s been gaining steam in Iowa, and I just like the way he tries to elevate the political dialogue. He and McCain arethe only Republican who have a track record of working with Democrats, and don’t run away from it! (ala Romney, Guiliani)

I agree with you Stan. To be honest though, I put very little stock in televised debates. Too many people, very little time for real answers and hosts tend to play to the alleged “front-runners”.
Time and again, we have seen those media leaders fall by the wayside as the people cast their votes.
While I am watching many of the candidates both Republican and Democrat, John Edwards stands out to me as the one who will do the most for the common working family, workers rights and for America as a whole. No disrespect intended towards the other candidates at all, just my opinion.

MTP has so far spent half the time on the political races and no retro yet. I was hoping the whole hour would be a look back–not that the panel isn’t a good one snd the discussion interesting, but this show has had the best of the best in that/those seats. Anyway, maybe they’ll do an intense 15 min. on the past–pretty soon.

The American people deserve to know the truth about the Las Vegas debate. The evidence is mounting that the debate was rigged, questions were planted, and that the audience was intentionally stacked with Clinton supports. Only 100 UNLV students got tickets.

Thinking back to Watergate, it wasn’t the break-in that mattered. What mattered was what the break-in revealed about the Nixon Presidency.

So it’s not just about the rigged debate. What does the Las Vegas debate tell us about a future Hillary Clinton Presidency? From my living room, it looks very scary. It looks cold, calculating, closed, and yes, corrupt.

I’m hopeful that the New York Times will help us get to the bottom of last week’s corruption. Voters just want to know the truth.

The comments made here since Thursday night about CNN being Clinton’s network have set new standards for idiocy.

Even a brief look at the cable’s transcripts of political interviews since 2000 reveal, contrary to all the gossipy claims, about a 70 to 30 percent bias for Republicans and never, never, a leaning toward Hillary except from known supporters like Carville, Begala et al.

And the criticisms of Blitzer, running toward new heights as well, are a blog aberration not shared by the general public nor the CNN record.
He’s been consistently fair with down-the-middle exegeses that nobody with any sense at all could possibly complain about as rewards for Clintonism. And he’s been just as offensive to one side as to the other, which enlightened members of both parties know for a fact.

If the yahoos would look to history instead of just responding to their wild and silly prejudices the public discussion would be less an insult to the common good.

Bob Schieffer seemed to think it amusing that Edwards would try to force legislators to give up their ample health insurance until they fixed everyone else’s … I didn’t see anything amusing about it

Schieffer also seemed to want desperately to amplify some sort of contrived tabloid scrap between Clinton and Edwards on issues; wow a presidential election with people disagreeing on policies and public discord … fascinating.

It looks like Schieffer is playing into the media circus routine with his presentation … I guess ratings are down.

I was in the White House in August, 1814 when the British burned it down. I’m the one who saved the Washington portrait. I’ve followed presidential comings and goings ever since.
The White House will be in good, safe hands with Hillary.

Sadly, none of the candidates can criticize CNN b/c they know the network will fire back at their campaigns. Their blatant bias towards Clinton at the debate Thursday is more than disturbing–it smells of corruption. They need to come clean and stop inviting these old school Clinton insiders to regularly appear as commentators. She already has enough of an incumbent’s advantage in media messaging without CNN going overboard for her. Even if they say that Carville is a Clinton supporter, regular Americans won’t know the extent to which he campaigns for her. I got a letter from him asking me for money for her. CNN needs to work more to be “above reproach” as my father would put it. America needs that right now.

It’s not “a blog aberration”; it’s the new transparancy that’s being provided by the Internet. There will be no coverup. Everything is out in the open. The names of the “plants” are out on the Internet. Judging by the number of posts, many folks are quite angry.

Thought Edwards did an admirable job explaining in detail his positions (and differences with both Clinton and Obama) today on Social Security, healthcare and trade on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, while skillfully avoiding attempts by Blitzer to set him up in the same way he did during the debate. This time Blitzer actually let him answer the questions. Clinton’s non answers and avoidance of the issues became even more glaring than on Thursday night. Her constant refrain of “The American people know where I’ve stood for 35 years”, “bipartisan committee” and “fiscal responsibility” have been repeated so much that it can be assumed that these are indeed her “positions” which would make me very uncomfortable putting her in any kind of position of power. It doesn’t seem to me that the Republicans would want to sit at any table with her, especially given her “turn up the heat” campaign slogan. What happened to that anyway? Unless, of course, her supporters are just waiting for her to win so Bill can make the real decisions. Biden had it right; why would anyone want to be Vice President under her when Bill is in the White House.

The threat of the White House being taken over by Hillary will unite the Republican party. If the polls on election night show that she has any chance of winning, then you can bet House and Senate candidates for the Republican party will be desperate to rack up seats in order to block her socialist agenda. Madame President is not a term I will swallow. Obama and Edwards have worked harder and are more worthy than Hillary. She is only where she is today because of her husband and his long list of rich buddies to help her.

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